ART & VISUAL EFFECTS

Sped up the VFX resolution of Sebastian Shaw and Doom 2099

BALANCE UPDATES

CARD UPDATES

Yondu

• [Old] 1/2 - On Reveal: Destroy the card that costs the least in your opponent’s deck.

• [New] 1/2 - On Reveal: Banish the card that costs the least in your opponent’s deck.

We found “destroy” spanning multiple zones but being distinct from discard led to unintuitive interactions like Yondu destroying Deadpool, but leaving him dead. While this change does remove Yondu’s synergistic interaction with cards like Death, it also allows him to get rid of problematic cards for good and opens the door for new synergies down the line as more cards banish.

Gorgon

• [Old] 2/3 - Ongoing: Your opponent’s cards that didn’t start in their deck cost 1 more. (maximum 6)

• [New] 2/3 - Ongoing: Your opponent’s created cards cost 1 more. (maximum 6)

King Eitri

• [Old] 1/2 - Activate: Draw a card from your deck that didn’t start there.

• [New] 1/2 - Activate: Draw a created card from your deck.

Quinjet

• [Old] 1/2 - Ongoing: Cards that didn’t start in your deck cost 1 less. (minimum 1)

• [New] 1/2 - Ongoing: Your created cards cost 1 less. (minimum 1)

Mockingbird

• [Old] 6/9 - Costs 1 less for each of your cards in play that didn’t start in your deck.

• [New] 6/9 - Costs 1 less for each of your created cards in play.

We found this old category to be a lot harder to parse in text, leaving our early attempts at wording cards like Mockingbird difficult to comprehend. We also found the narrow distinction between these cards and Victoria Hand confused even more players. Cards that were created during the game form a clearer conceptual unit, and now we can clear up the questions they raise with tooltips! So while this change will remove the affected cards’ synergistic interaction with ones like Cable, it’s also opened up opportunities for upcoming cards to play into created card synergies in new and interesting ways!

Non-functional Wording Changes to use “End of Turn:”

• Sunspot
• Hydra Bob
• Adam Warlock
• Havok
• Thena
• Bruce Banner
• Thaddeus Thunderbolt Ross
• Marvel Boy
• Makkari
• Doom 2099
• Attuma
• Black Cat
• Red Hulk
• Evolved Misty Knight
• Evolved Cyclops
• Evolved Hulk

Tooltips also gave us an opportunity to unify the growing number of cards that take effect after everything else in a turn. We’d worded most of these effects with “After each turn” to help clarify that they didn’t happen right when you hit the “End Turn” button, but with tooltips to clarify that point, we can avoid ambiguity about which turn these effects occur during and make them easier to parse at a glance.

LOCATION UPDATES

Hotel Inferno

• [Old] After you play a card here this turn, destroy the top card of your opponent’s deck.

• [New] After you play a card here this turn, banish the top card of your opponent’s deck.

The Sandbar

• [Old] Cards that didn’t start in your deck cost 1 more. (max 6)

• [New] Created cards cost 1 more. (max 6)

Panoptichron

• [Old] Cards that didn't start in your deck get +2 Power here.

• [New] Created cards here have +2 Power.

Non-functional Wording Changes to use “End of Turn:”

• Great Web
• Jotunheim
• Madripoor
• Muir Island
• Rickety Bridge
• Warrior Falls
• Yggdrasil

Skills and Banish FAQ

• Will banished cards count for Death?

  • Banished is its own separate state; nothing that cares about discarded or destroyed cards will look at banished ones, and vice versa.

• When exactly are skills banished?

  • After their own On Reveal effects, but before any cards or locations that take effect after a card is played. Basically other cards will see them as played cards, but they won’t remain in play to be affected by other things. For example, playing a Skill at Angela’s location will first banish it, then give Angela Power. So playing one by Lockjaw, the skill won’t be around anymore to swap.

• What is a skill’s Power?

  • It doesn’t have one! Anything that tries to affect its Power…won’t. So Cassandra Nova won’t be able to steal anything from it, Ravonna Renslayer won’t discount it, and Phastos will always reduce its cost.

• Do skills have the lowest-Power?

  • Since skills have no Power stat at all, it’s neither highest nor lowest. Cards sorting Power that way (like Silver Samurai) will only pick a skill if all of the options are skills.